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    The surname Negrete

    A Spanish surname, carried by 15,245 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex N263

    Negrete: #2,384 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Negrete #2,384, 15,245 people Negrete: #2,384 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Negrete #2,384, 15,245 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Negrete is more common than 98.5% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Borrowed from Spanish Negrete. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 15,245 people named Negrete in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 20,252 Americans. That is up 36% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,188.

    #2,384
    rank among US surnames
    15,245
    people in 2010
    5.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +36.3%
    change since 2000 (was #2,961)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,375Hinds15,33720,131
    #2,376Call15,32420,148
    #2,377Dowell15,32020,153
    #2,378Kellogg15,31720,157
    #2,379Horvath15,30220,177
    #2,380Whitmore15,29620,185
    #2,381Bianco15,27820,209

    Who is named Negrete

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Negrete identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 5.1% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 94%
    • White (not Hispanic) 5.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
    • Two or more races 0.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Negrette

    Negrete has the Soundex code N263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N263.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Negrete come from?
    Borrowed from Spanish Negrete. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
    How common is the surname Negrete?
    15,245 people in the United States had the surname Negrete in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 20,252 Americans. It ranked 2,384th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Negrete?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Negrete identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 5.1% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Negrete getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,188 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 15,245 in 2010, up 36%.
    What are other spellings of Negrete?
    Negrette.